{"id":92003,"date":"2024-03-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92003"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:24:42","slug":"seloc-editorial-emira-clears-the-us-approval-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/seloc-editorial-emira-clears-the-us-approval-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Emira clears the US approval hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The manual V6 First Edition had already been seen and driven elsewhere when Lotus announced US regulatory approval in March 2024. For buyers on the American waiting list, that was the milestone that allowed deliveries to start. It also explains why a car\u2019s first registration date is a poor guide to what market it was built for.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/91\/Lotus_EMIRA_%28type_131%29_front.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus Emira\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Lotus Emira. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lotus_EMIRA_%28type_131%29_front.jpg\">Tokumeigakarinoaoshima \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking at an import, get the VIN and original order sheet before comparing its price with a UK car. Build date, model year and registration date can all be different. Ask a local Lotus dealer what warranty applies to that VIN and whether any market-specific service work is outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing wrong with wanting a manual V6 for the sake of it. Just make sure the car in the advert is the specification you think it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the US launch tells you about buying an imported Emira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[937,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-news","category-seloc-editorial-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92067,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92003\/revisions\/92067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}